Blue Lily, Lily Blue

I've never eaten so many books so fast wow.

This was so good and my heart just exploded on the last page. Considering I was told to go to sleep but finished this book anyways must have some sort of significance ( I LOVE THESE BOOKS WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL AND I'VE SOULED IT TO MAGGIE STieFVATER )

Where can i get a Gangsey ?

consider my feels towards this if you will :

Ronan FREAKING LYCNH - he just is Ronan and i love the guy for that you know ? cant word it .

Blue - she is just so cool and brave and totally in love with Gansey Boy its unreal .

Noah Czerny - ( i still can't spell his name ... mm) HE is dead , but then again could live because of the favour and he's so sweet and won't stop petting blue's hair ? ( get you a boy who can do both peoples)

Gansey IIi - DO NOT DIE , he is king . I love how the way Gansey walks , talks , looks , is described like 132432435 times by almost all of the people in this series.

Adam Parrish - I loved the guy from day one . He's so troubled and needs a hug . And he is so quiet and observant i just want to high five him for that because same here Adam , same here .He is cabeswater , which is reason #475838333 as to why Parrish is so damn lovable .

The Raven King now awaits . Luckily all of these books are out already .

Love ,
bookishwolf

It is no secret that I have a love-hate relationship with this series. I love the writing and the characters, but I've always felt very “meh” about the story and plot. I've just never connected with the story and the direction Maggie Stiefvater takes the story.

Blue Lily, Lily Blue started out the same way as the previous two. I loved reading about these characters I've come to love, but I had no interest in their quest and the story. For me, this series is a character driven story. I'm reading this series to get to know them and “interact with them”. I love the sass, the teasing, and the ease of Blue, Gansey, Adam, Noah, and Ronan's eclectic relationships. They are this misshapen conglomerate of people that work so well together. While they may not always see eye-to-eye, we know they rely on each other.

This series takes place over a very short time period and in this installment the summer is ending and school is beginning. I really wish we had gotten more scenes of Blue and the boys at their respective schools. Aglionby has always fascinated me and I really wish we could have seen more.

This book took a really interesting turn about 300 pages in (rough 100 pages remaining). I started to become really attached to their quest and what they were trying to do. It took almost three books, but I'm now fully invested in this series. It is about more than just the characters now. I also want to follow them on this quest to Glendower.

This book had a lot of heartache. There was so much sadness and I'm now even more scared of what is to come in The Raven King. I'm also very glad I already have The Raven King in my possession, because the ending of Blue Lily, Lily Blue is not something you want to sit on, having to wait to see what happens next.

This is a super long review, but basically for me this was the book that made me fall in love with this story completely. I still would not consider this a favorite series, like many others do, but I now understand the unconditional love people have for this series. I get the devotion to both the characters and the story. It just took me a while longer to get the story part.

HOW AM I SUPPOSED NOW TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR AND TO MAKE AS IF IT HASN'T CHANGED A SINGLE SUBSTANTIAL BIT OF MY LIFE ??????????

P.s : i'm thorougly waiting for an adam/ronan and blue/gansey TRUE (and non-mortal -yet mortal) kiss.

You don't see too many quadrilogies these days that were actually planned as such. I think Blue Lily, Lily Blue serves the purpose that typically the second book in a trilogy is saddled with - setting up the climax. It's a little more aimless than [b:The Raven Boys 17675462 The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) Maggie Stiefvater https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1415182016s/17675462.jpg 18970934], and definitely not as fuel-injected as [b:The Dream Thieves 17347389 The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2) Maggie Stiefvater https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1418213037s/17347389.jpg 21598446] (probably nothing ever will be, except perhaps that book about a gang of girl street racers Maggie said she was working on bites lip). The major conflicts slip in and out of relevance like passing moments in a dream. Lots of questions are raised, a few are answered. All in all, things just get a lot more magical, and I mean that in a perfectly literal sense.Adam, as usual, is the quiet hero of this book. He develops as a man and as the magician. He comes to accept and appreciate his arrangement with Cabeswater, which has granted him some pretty impressive abilities and connection to the otherworldly. His intelligence and ruthlessness is also on full display here - where Ronan is a more classic kind of brute, all anger and viciousness, but deep down believes in a very hard-lined right and wrong, Adam is more snakelike. When Ronan asks him to come up with idea to rid them of the problem of Greenmantle, his father's murderer, Adam hatches a plan that is both efficient and horrifying. Honestly, if Ronan and Adam's sexual tension (and there was plenty of it, lemme tell ya) does come to the appropriate conclusion, those two will be a force to be reckoned with. Speaking of Colin Greenmantle, though, he and his wife Piper may have been this book's highlight. Far from a distant chin-stroking stereotypical villain, Greenmantle is an unsettlingly energetic sociopath. Think Dandy from American Horror Story: Freak Show, but funnier, more self-aware and paired up with a woman just as bad - if not worse - than him. They are both ten thousand pounds of snark and wit piled into two deliciously superficial people, whose greatest fear is to be inconvenienced. They're like raving toddlers with guns and money, with a fixation on magical artifacts, not realizing that there are much bigger things going on than what they're going add next to their collection.And Gansey excels in unexpected ways as well. I never really thought about it before, but I'm realizing that Gansey is kind objectified by the narrative of these books. Every one of his friends is defined by him in a way, and as such defines him in a certain way. Whether they're attracted to him, in love with him, admire him or resent him, a big part of this story is what Richard Gansey III is to other people, but very rarely is it about what he is to himself. We learn that his obsession with Glendower is not just some eccentric rich boy hobby, it has a much greater significance and so does Gansey himself. As always, Maggie's writing is beautiful. Her prose is sticky, it creates images in your head that are so vibrant and evocative. There are a lot of spooky moments, curses and ghosts that act like good old fashioned versions of curses and ghosts. I would say that this is not as good as the previous two books, but that doesn't mean its subpar in any way. This is Stiefvater we're talking about, she has not let me down yet.

Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this through netgalley.com.

The Raven Cycle series have quickly become one of my favorite fiction settings. Maggie Stiefvater created a world where magic, science, tarot cards, and growing up amongst these feels normal. Blue Lily, Lily Blue is the third book in this cycle where Blue, Gansey, Adam and the rest of the “raven boys” seek to unravel the mystery in where an old King was buried. The book picks up where the last one left off, with Adam learning more about his connection to Cabeswater and helping the mystical area heal itself. Blue is still torn between her passions and worrying about her mother, who went missing.

I loved the budding romance and relationship between Blue and Gansey. They steal looks from one another, brush the tips of their fingertips when they can, and hold late night phone discussions that are short and sweet. This book introduces a few new characters into the mix, Professor Malory, and Piper Greenmantle, Colin Greenmantle's wife. Piper and Colin's scenes are filled with snarky discussion and helps us to understand their strange relationship.

Of course, Stiefvater ends this book on yet another great cliffhanger... which makes me long for and hope for the next volume in this great series. I've also started following Maggie's twitter feed and it's been exciting to watch her create what I hope is to be The Raven Cycle tarot deck. If I can't live in the world of The Raven Cycle, perhaps owning a tarot deck could be the next best thing.

I really like this storyline and characters in these books. Steifvater writes great dialog, but be warned if you're sensitive to the “F-word” this book may offend you.
I hope there will be another book after this one.

I have no idea how she manages to do it, with every. single. book, but she does and I am in serious fan girl awe.

And for the record, I never fan girl.
Siiiiigh.

It is AMAZING. I want the next book now but I don't want this to end! I was so relieved when Mr. Gray did not die; but how will things with Maura be? I mean Artemus is back and I doubt things are going to be peaceful. Well, here's to the next book I suppose!